Question About Friend Request On Facebook

Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

I just know someone will be able to help me. I'm new to Facebook and don't know too much about it. There is a woman at my Weight Watchers meeting who won't be coming to that meeting anymore because she got a job. I want to keep in touch so we said we will keep in touch on Facebook. I tried to request to be a friend on her Facebook page. She must have privacy settings because nowhere on her timeline is something to click on to add a friend. Is there a way around this or can I not have her as a friend? Before anyone thinks she doesn't want to be friends she is nice and I don't think she would intentionally tell she would be friends and then not.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

can you send her a message either via facebook or via email or via text to ask her to request you as a friend.

i cannot tell what her privacy settings are. i have never NOT seen a friend request link on someones page.

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Rowdyone · ‎05-23-2014

You send her a friend request and then wait for her to accept it.

In the meantime:

Check YOUR privacy settings, and frankly, all of your account settings. It's not wise to have your entire FB page viewable by the entire internet. Spend the time to protect yourself before you go further with the technology. Would you let anyone from anywhere into your house?

Predators troll FB for all kinds of reasons. Do you want them viewing pics of your kids/grandkids?

Of course, don't be too quick to let anybody onto your FB. Again, think of how soon you'd let them into your home.

NYC Susan · ‎03-13-2010

You don't see a green rectangle that says, "Add Friend"?

I was curious about this, so I just did some investigating, and here's what I found out: There are two privacy options for friend requests. One allows everyone to send a friend request. That's the default setting and probably what most people have since you can ignore any friend requests you get. But there's also a "friends of friends" setting. If this woman changed her settings to that and you have no mutual friends, then you won't be able to request her as a friend.

Do you see the option to send her a message? That would be a private message that won't appear on her timeline. But I know that some people have that blocked, and she may have done that. Do you have another way to get in touch with her? If not, maybe she'll request you as a friend. Or maybe try back in a few days to see if the "Add Friend" button is there. Good luck!

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gilmoregirl · ‎11-14-2011

She has set her settings to restrict who can send her a friend request (I have the same on mine) she most likely forgot that. You will need to have her send you a friend request. You can attempt sending her a message but that will most likely end up in her ""other"" folder since she has tightened down her settings.